Building and Re-building a City through Sport: Hamilton, Ontario and the British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1930–2003

Hamilton Spectator sports editor Melville Marks ‘Bobby’ Robinson was a proud British imperialist who wanted to create a new large sporting event to showcase the Empire's athletes when he helped create the British Empire Games. But when he sought financial support from Hamilton, Ontario's city council for the 1930 hosting of those Games, he used symbols that were less about the Empire and more about what was important to that city's local …